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(ModeL) v G. P. BASOOM, De0d.,

J. ,F. BASGQIVL administratrix.

' PLOW.

No. 298,157. Patented May 6, 1884.

N. PETERS. Phomumnw iur. Washington. at.

' Nrr STATES.

ATENT Eric JOSEPHINE F. EAsooM, or HALIFAX, VERMONT,VADMINISTRATRIX or eEo. r. EAscoM, DECEASED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,157, dated May 6, 188%.

Application filed January 23, 18852. (Model) I To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosEPHINE. F. BASCOM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Halifax, in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, administratrix of the estate of GEORGE P. BASOOM, late a citizen of Halifax, in the county of I Vindham and State of Vermont, deceased, (as by reference to the dulycertified copy of letters of administration hereto annexed will more fully appear,) am the owner of a new and useful Improvement in Swivel-Flows, invented by the said GEORGE P. BASCOM in his'lifetime, of which the following is a specification.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the device; Fig. 2, a rear view; Figs. 3 and at details.

This invention relates to the mold-board and attachments connected therewith; and the object of this invention is to make a plow that will turn, like the ordinary swivel or side-hill plow, but which when turned and hooked into proper place will form a plow with a moldboard in shape like a stationary or landside plow. To do this I make a plow with a stub of a mold-board, (marked A on the accompanying drawings,) on which sets a point, the same as in the old kind of plows, this being formed by cutting what is the mold-board in the old style' of plows oft square across a few inches back of where the point sets on. From the stub mold-board thus formed a solid iron arm, (J, runs back, following the center line of the mold-board, and some four or five inches below where the center of the surface of the mold-board would be. This arm is east solid with the stub mold-board and turn-. ing part of the plow. On this arm, at about the middle of the mold-board, I set a rocker with a straight face, (marked D on drawings',) this rocker being loose, so that it will rotate on the arm 0.

Beyond the rocker D, and on the end of the arm 0, is a casting, which is fastened solidly to the arm 0, and which holds the rocker D in place This casting Ev has holes in each end, in which the plow is hooked.

Starting from the underside of the stub mold-board A, and extending down to the arm 0, is a flange, F, with a certain number the back edge of the stub mold-board A.

Starting from the holes in the flange F are an'equ'al number of round or oval steel or iron rods, G G. I These rods set into the holes in the flange F, with a shoulder on the outside of the flange F of sufficient size to bring the surface of the rods even with face of the stub mold-board A; or the holes in flange F may be made of sufficient size to receive the rods full size, bringing them at the starting-point from the stub'mold-board the thickness of the casting below the surface of the stub moldboard; but whichever way this is done, the ends of the rods G G pass through the flange F, and are fastened with a nut or pin, so that they cannot be drawn out, but not so tight but that they can turn or rotate each one independently of the others. These rods G G are perfectly straight, and run back far enough to complete the length of the mold-board, passing over the face of the rocker marked D,

and each rod is furnished with an offshoot or shoulder on both sides of the rocker D, and each rod is fastened to the rocker D by having a bolt'or pin pass through the. shoulders on the rods, and through acorresponding hole in the rocker D, which. holes in the rocker are made large enough so the bolt or pin can turn, as will be hereinafter explained. These rods, instead of being fastened in the way above explained to the rocker D, may be fastened by a hook, latch, or any other contrivance that will hold the rods in place on the face of the rocker, and will yet allow them to rotate as the rocker is turned into place. These rods G G being thus fastened in the stub mold-board A, which is stationary, and to the rocker D, which rotates upon the arm 0, the rods G G, as the plow is swung into place on either side of the beam, will twist into the form of a perfect mold-board, and when they are in this position the plow is fastened by a hook or latch (marked on drawings H) which passes through the casting E and outside of the rocker D, and securely looks or fastens it in place. Upon the removal of the hook or latch the plow is not only at liberty to turn from side to side of the beam, but also the rocker D is free torotate upon the arm 0, (and which the turning of the plow from side to side and the striking of the outside rod against the upright part of the plow will cause it to do,) thus twisting the mold-board upon either side into perfect shape.

By the mechanism above described it will be seen that I make a plow which will turn as readily and is as easily operated as the ordinary swivel-plow, and which forms a perfect mold-board upon each side from the bottom to the top, thereby admitting of the turning of a furrow from the shallowest possible depth to the deepest furrow that can be turned by a stationary or landside plow.

I am aware that reversible plows are old; 

